Word: glows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear, moonless February and March night in the Northern Hemisphere, just after evening twilight and before morning twilight, the sky is faintly illuminated above the sunside of the horizon.* That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics the Zodiacal light appears every clear night, except when the moon outshines it. The light of the milky way blots out the Gegenschein during December, January, June and July. Other times it matches the Zodiacal light. Last week before...
...announcement that the University has granted a considerable sum to 18 of her professors for the advancement of the "Humanities" may well cause a glow of satisfaction and a sign of relief among the Harvard-minded. Incidentally, it may also serve to obliterate the picture of the Administration in the role of a penny-pinching miser which has recently been conjured up by virtue of a previous financial decision...
Competitions such as that announced in today's CRIMSON are the soil for the seeds from which grow that hybrid individual known as the Big Man. Every year there is a group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part...
...citizens had ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime Minister at his elbow...